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What drives President Barack Obama to want to seize control of the health care and energy sectors of the U.S. economy? Obama was trained as a Marxist from his days as a young boy in Hawaii when his grandfather picked Communist Party USA member Frank Marshall Davis as his mentor. In college, as Obama tells the story, he picked his "friends" carefully, in order to avoid being perceived as a sell-out, and those friends included the "Marxist professors." Later, in Chicago, he would become a political associate of another Marxist Professor, Bill Ayers of the University of Illinois. Does anybody see a pattern here?

Based on what we have seen at some of the town hall meetings, there are some Americans who don't want to see the U.S. go down the Marxist road. This is the time for the media to tell the truth about Obama and his agenda.

Unfortunately, we have now been treated to a new dishonest Obama book, Renegade, by Richard Wolffe, supposedly about "The Making of a President." Far from being a "renegade," the evidence shows that this President is probably the most far-left ideologically of any major political party nominee in history. Even as new questions emerge, however, it is still a challenge to get the media to report on the truthful but damaging information that is already a matter of public record.

Wolffe, who worked for the Financial Times and Newsweek, would seem to be in a position to shed light on "the making" of this President. Even though he is described as a "political analyst for MSNBC television, appearing frequently on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Hardball with Chris Matthews," he claims to have obtained "exclusive interviews with Barack Obama" for his book. These were opportunities to examine aspects of Obama's still mysterious background.

But it's apparent that Wolffe didn't ask the important questions. Only two pages of the Wolffe book are devoted to Frank Marshall Davis, a father figure in Obama's early life, and nothing is said about the evidence―in the form of 600 pages of his FBI file―about his communist views or membership in the CPUSA.

The Wolffe book describes Davis as a "leading black activist" and "strong advocate for racial justice" whose "political writings" on "civil rights and labor issues" made him "the target of a McCarthyite denunciation" by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Notice the use of the term "McCarthyite" being associated with a House committee. McCarthy, of course, was a senator. Wolffe uses the term "McCarthyite" to make the point, which is false, that Davis was not in any sense a communist or fellow-traveler. Wolffe understands that many people have been conditioned by academia to recoil at the thought of anything associated with McCarthyism.

The false information provided by Wolffe is similar to what the Obama campaign said about Davis when it was discovered last year that the mysterious "Frank" from Obama's book, Dreams from My Father, was in fact Frank Marshall Davis. If Davis were such an innocent figure, why didn't Obama give us his full name and tell us whether he accepted or rejected Davis's communist views? It was later revealed that Davis, a notorious drinker, was a pornographer and a sex pervert, adding to the concern about the nature of the Obama-Davis relationship. Sex sells, except when it involves the President's childhood mentor.

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